So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

It's HE-RO, " the boy argued."No, " the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.